Viewed from the top down, the economic achievements of Beijing's uncuddly regime are downright impressive when compared with those of the democratic but incompetent Indian government in New Delhi.

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It promises to be unpleasant business, this dismantling of many cherished assumptions about the U.S. force structure and its international reach, and Obama wants a battle-scarred and uncuddly sort to conduct it.

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